| Gurltia paralysans | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Secernentea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Suborder: | Strongylida |
| Superfamily: | Metastrongyloidea |
| Family: | Angiostrongylidae |
| Genus: | Gurltia |
| Species: | G. paralysans |
| Binomial name | |
| Gurltia paralysans (Wolffhügel, 1933) | |
Gurltia paralysans is a parasite which attaches itself to the leptomeningeal veins of South American felines
The genus name comes from Ernst Friedrich Gurlt (1794–1882), a German veterinarian and anatomist.
References
- Bowman, Dwight D. (4 Nov 2008). Georgis' Parasitology for Veterinarians (9nt ed.). Saunders. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-4160-4412-3.
- Gurltia paralysans (Wolffhügel, 1933): description of adults and additional case reports of neurological diseases in three domestic cats from southern Chile. Moroni M, Muñoz P, Gómez M, Mieres M, Rojas M, Lillo C, Aguirre F, Acosta-Jamett G, Kaiser M and Lindsay DS, Vet Parasitol., 23 MArch 2012, volume 184, issues 2–4, pages 377–380, doi:10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.08.035
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